"beacon" is a correct word in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that guides you or serves as a signal, such as a lighthouse, tower, or fire. For example, "The beacon's bright light guided them to safety."
And Lucas promised to be a beacon in the Commons for those who opposed what she called "five more years of savage austerity".
They also got a leader and genuine role model whose beacon of good citizenship shone all the brighter through times when the off-field trials at St Kilda threatened to overshadow a sustained period of excellence on it.
Miliband knew in advance his attendance was a risk, that he could be left isolated by the alliance of leftwing leaders as the beacon for stale Westminster politics and austerity policies.
While ethnic tension arguably holds the rest of the country back, this city of 100,000 people has become a beacon for multi-ethnicity: the mayor is Croat, his deputy is Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and the assembly's speaker is Serb.
Last year, Yawuru elder and National Museum council member Peter Yu told me, "It would become like a beacon of conscience, where it reminds us of the importance of history and what we can do to each other, but where we can learn from what we've done to each other.
My pick: Tosca Cafe In the heart of North Beach, where poetry evenings jostle with strip joints, lies Tosca Cafe, its arched windows and long, muralled bar a beacon for everyone from North Beach bums to Francis Ford Coppola.
It's an obvious enough point, but it cannot be restated enough: "No one with any knowledge of the murky manoeuvres that carved what is now Iraq out of the defeated Ottoman Empire after the first world war," he writes, "could possibly have thought it a good idea to try, by force of arms, to turn that artificial, riven state into a beacon of democracy for the Middle East".
"They see us as a beacon, this country as a beacon.
Americans' role as the beacon of liberty in the world requires no less of us.
In addition, the people of the United States are not ready to abandon our role as a beacon of liberty to the world.
Johnson said the council had studied Childs' plans for the building, and noted the symbolic height of the spire and the beacon that will shine from it – which is designed as a complement to the light at the top of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
